TMK IPSCO opens ULTRA Premium Connections Facility in Marcellus Shale Region
05/12/2010 - TMK IPSCO recently celebrated the opening of its new Brookfield, Ohio, manufacturing plant, which will have an annual production capacity of up to 100,000 tons of threaded pipe.
TMK IPSCO recently celebrated the opening of its new Brookfield, Ohio, manufacturing plant. The facility is dedicated to threading pipe with TMK IPSCO’s line of ULTRA Premium Connections to support the company’s growing market share in the Marcellus Shale gas plays.
The new plant will have an annual manufacturing capacity of up to 100,000 tons of threaded pipe.
Piotr Galitzine, chairman of TMK IPSCO, said that "unconventional gas, especially in shales such as the giant Marcellus, hold the promise of energy security for the U.S.—our pipe and connections will help unlock that.” Galitzine added that the opening of the Ohio facility was only the beginning of TMK IPSCO’s strategic North American expansion.
"Here in Ohio, in the western wing of the Marcellus, we are ideally placed to help unlock this abundant resource for our customers and Americans everywhere,” said Vicki Avril, President and CEO of the company. “Locating our new plant in the Marcellus region has the added benefit of access to the skilled work force of the state of Ohio."
The TMK IPSCO executive team was joined at the opening by Ohio state and local government officials including Governor Ted Strickland; Congressman Tim Ryan; Max Blachman, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s representative for Northeast Ohio; and Lisa Patt-MacDaniel, Director of Ohio’s Department of Development.
Also in attendance were 20 newly hired employees from the Brookfield plant and their families plus TMK IPSCO employees from across the country and local contractors who were involved in the start up of the plant.
Congressman Ryan praised TMK IPSCO’s investment in the energy industry and called for expanded use of natural gas as a source of clean energy through the retrofitting of buses and trucks across the nation.
